My wife Betty Nicol (Betty Marie New) passed Jan 03-2006 in Newport
News. Betty used to work at NNHS(1950) in
the adult education office. Betty had graduated from Whitestone HS in
1948 and came to Newport News in 1949 to stay with her aunt and uncle in
Newport News. Our daughter, Sandra Nicol, now Sandra N. Smith,
living in Hampton, VA) graduated from NNHS in 1970. I of
course graduated way back in Feb 1949 from NNHS.

Yours truly,
Alex Nicol

P.S. I really like your newsletter, and even if I am a few years older than
those in the !965 graduating class, I remember well all the places, etc. you
all speak of. I had lived in Stuart Gardens
and later on Blair Avenue.

Oh, Alex! I am so sorry that
I missed seeing this - and of course, I'm so deeply sorry for your loss!
Please accept my sincerest condolences, even if they are belated.

From the Daily
Press - 01/06/06:

Betty Marie Nicol

HAMPTON - Betty Marie
Nicol, 75, died unexpectedly Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2006, at Mary Immaculate
Hospital. A native of Palmer, Va., she graduated as Salutatorian from
White Stone High School. She had been a Peninsula resident for many
years where she worked first for the civil service at Fort Monroe and
then went to work in the Blueprint Reproduction Dept. at the Newport
News Shipyard, retiring in 1992 after 22 years of service. Mrs. Nicol
loved taking care of people. She served on the resident council at
Riverside Regional Convalescent Center, where she lived for the last
four years. She was preceded in death by her parents, Betty Alice New
and Horace Christian New Sr. Survivors include her loving husband of 54
years, Alex M. Nicol; three daughters, Sandra Smith (Russell) of
Hampton, Shirley Gayle (Blaine) of Newport News and Joan Nicol (Doug) of
Hampton; one son, Alan Nicol (Susan) of Hampton; seven grandchildren,
Angela Lees (John), Jennifer Rowe (Kevin), Russell E. Smith Jr., Freddy
R. Paul Jr. (Melissa), Kelly Nicol, Leslie March (Nigel) and David Nicol;
six great-grandchildren, Brittany Shields, Nicholas Lees, Kaleb Nicol,
Darius Rowe, Joshua Theiss and Priscilla Paul. She will also be greatly
missed by her special friends, Alton Wilson Sr., Bea Johnson and Daisy
Wilson. She was also blessed with many special friends and caregivers at
Riverside Regional Convalescent Center. A funeral service will be
conducted at 5 p.m. Friday, Jan. 6, in the R. Hayden Smith Funeral Home
chapel by the Rev. Susan Copley. The family will receive friends
immediately following the service until 7 p.m.